Martin Shaw: Songs: The Airmen

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This is music full of character, and some of that character is complex and contradictory. Cleanly crafted, the songs are mostly easy to perform, though they need ringing passion and a quick tongue... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: DCD34105
Label: Delphian
Length: 77 minutes

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Shaw, M: 6 Songs of War

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 1-3 May 2011
Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 6, Venizel

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Shaw, M: Jack Overdue

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Melodies You Sing

Work length1:08

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Airmen

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: 6 Songs

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 4, Over the Sea

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Shaw, M: Pity Poor Fighting Men

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Egg-Shell

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: 6 Songs

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 3, The Land of Heart's Desire

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Shaw, M: The Conjuration

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Merry Wanderer

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Bab-Lock-Hythe

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Child Of The Flowing Tide

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Shaw, M: Full Fathom Five

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: 6 Songs

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 1, Bird or Beast?

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Shaw, M: 2 Water Songs

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 1, The Little Waves of Breffney

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Shaw, M: 2 Shakespeare Songs

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 1, Come Away, Death

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Shaw, M: Brookland Road

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: 6 Songs

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 6, Summer

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Shaw, M: The Bubble Song

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Dip

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: 2 Water Songs

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

No. 2, The Rivulet

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Shaw, M: I Know A Bank

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Perilous Ways

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Heffle Cuckoo Fair

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Old Clothes And Fine Clothes

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Over The Sea With The Soldier

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Shaw, M: When Daisies Pied

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Shaw, M: At Columbine’s Grave

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Wood Magic

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Tides

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

trad.: Ye Banks and Braes (Arr. M. Shaw)

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The Accursed Wood

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: The World’s Delight

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

trad.: The Banks of Allan Water (Arr. M. Shaw)

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Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Invictus

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

Shaw, M: Cuckoo

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Recording Venue: Sir Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University

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Despite a compositional career spanning both World Wars, remarkably little is known about Martin Shaw’s music. It has yet to enjoy the revival of interest that has benefitted the legacies of close friends such as Ralph Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. His songs range from the whimsical and effervescent to the deeply melancholic, and will be a revelation to many. In rescuing these gems from obscurity, Iain Burnside and his singers have given new life to an unjustly neglected figure. Shaw delighted in describing himself as a cockney, a title he could claim under Samuel Rowlands's definition of one born within the sound of the Bow Bells. He studied under Stanford at the Royal College of Music, together with a generation of composers that included Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. He then embarked upon a career as a theatrical producer, composer and conductor, the early years of which he described as "a long period of starving along". With Gordon Craig, he founded the Purcell Operatic Society in 1899, dedicated to reviving the music of Henry Purcell and other English composers of the period, many of whose works had fallen into long neglect. In 1903, Martin joined Ellen Terry's company at the Imperial Theatre, where he composed and conducted the music for productions of The Vikings and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Craig, Ellen Terry's son. Shaw toured Europe as conductor to Isadora Duncan, extensively described in his 1929 autobiography Up to Now published by Oxford University Press. During this period he gave music lessons and took posts as organist and director of music, first at St Mary's, Primrose Hill 1902-1920, later at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1920-1924. In 1918 he co-founded the League of Arts, the Royal School of Church Music and was an early organiser of hymn festivals. He did much editorial and executive work in connection with popularising music, the encouragement of community singing and raising standards of choral singing in small parish churches. In 1932 Shaw received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music. He was appointed an OBE in 1955 and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) in 1958. Morning Has Broken, which Martin Shaw commissioned specially from his old friend Eleanor Farjeon, became a No. 1 hit for Cat Stevens in 1972.

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June 2012

This is music full of character, and some of that character is complex and contradictory. Cleanly crafted, the songs are mostly easy to perform, though they need ringing passion and a quick tongue in the texts...Tenor Andrew Kennedy and baritone Roderick Williams are gorgeously eloquent; Iain Burnside's piano satisfies, too.

16th February 2012

this revisiting of Martin Shaw’s songs by Iain Burnside and his singers has produced some ear-pricking results...it would be wonderful to think that this massively enjoyable disc might at least land a few of his songs into more established positions within the solo repertory. They do deserve that much.

August 2012

This attractive selection benefits from havig three excellent singers, all with good diction. With persuasive performances like these it looks as if there's a case for making room for another English song composer.

1st March 2012

Their style is bold, diatonic and memorably melodic...These performances, with Burnside the immaculate accompanist, are exemplary: there is no better interpreter of English song today than Roderick Williams, and it's a huge tribute to soprano Sophie Bevan and tenor Andrew Kennedy that their contributions are a match for his.

11th February 2012

[Shaw's] lyrical gift is elegant, as is the intelligence of his text setting. There are surprises, too: atmospheric settings that offset the big-boned ballads.

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